Re: How is this bodyguard thing working out for you?
Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 12:27 am
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as always funded by your tax dime, eh?
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Betraying the badge: Edison police produce astonishing record of misconduct
The Edison Police Department is a department embroiled in a civil war so bitter and destabilizing it has jeopardized the department's integrity and cost taxpayers millions of dollars in legal fees and settlements. (Photo by Aristide Economopoulos/The Star-Ledger)
on December 10, 2012
Edison police investigation: Day 2 Documents
Internal affairs report sustaining allegations of excessive force in arrest of Delevan Du Bois
Internal affairs report summarizing complaints against Sgt. Alex Glinsky
Legal certification by former internal affairs commander regarding allegations of racism against Sgt. Alex Glinsky
Officer Daniel Boslet's internal affairs statement about Sgt. Alex Glinsky
Officer Jerome Sisolak's internal affairs statement about Sgt. Alex Glinsky
Officer Shawn Meade's internal affairs statement about Sgt. Alex Glinsky
Officer Joseph Kenney's internal affairs statement about Sgt. Alex Glinsky
EDISON — From her room in a low-budget motel on Route 1, a prostitute working as an informant for the Woodbridge Police Department reached out to her handler with an urgent tip.
A client had contacted her. He was flush with cocaine — "white," he called it — and he wanted to trade some of it for sex, she told the handler.
Woodbridge detectives, deep into an investigation of drug-trafficking at hotels along the highway, moved into position and waited.
On that Saturday morning in 2010, the man the prostitute identified as her client, Thomas Wall, was inaugurated into one of New Jersey’s more infamous brotherhoods: Edison police officers who have betrayed the badge.
Wall — who would later fail a department-ordered drug test, documents show — is one of at least 30 Edison officers who were fired or who abruptly resigned amid allegations of inappropriate or illegal behavior over the past two decades. That figure, confirmed by Chief Thomas Bryan, includes six officers removed from the force or prosecuted in the past four years alone.
It is an astonishing record of misconduct unmatched by any department of equivalent size in New Jersey, a Star-Ledger review has found. Edison — the state’s fifth-largest municipality, with a population of about 100,000 — has 168 officers, down from a high of 215 eight years ago.
In neighboring Woodbridge, which has a slightly larger force and about 400 fewer residents, just seven officers have run afoul of the law or committed rules violations serious enough to warrant termination in the past 20 years, a township spokesman confirmed. Two of the seven were later reinstated.
And in Toms River, with 150 officers and 91,000 residents, not a single officer has been charged or removed for cause in the same time period, longtime Police Chief Michael Mastronardy said.
see link for full story
as always funded by your tax dime, eh?
http://www.nj.com/middlesex/index.ssf/2 ... bruta.html
Betraying the badge: Edison police produce astonishing record of misconduct
The Edison Police Department is a department embroiled in a civil war so bitter and destabilizing it has jeopardized the department's integrity and cost taxpayers millions of dollars in legal fees and settlements. (Photo by Aristide Economopoulos/The Star-Ledger)
on December 10, 2012
Edison police investigation: Day 2 Documents
Internal affairs report sustaining allegations of excessive force in arrest of Delevan Du Bois
Internal affairs report summarizing complaints against Sgt. Alex Glinsky
Legal certification by former internal affairs commander regarding allegations of racism against Sgt. Alex Glinsky
Officer Daniel Boslet's internal affairs statement about Sgt. Alex Glinsky
Officer Jerome Sisolak's internal affairs statement about Sgt. Alex Glinsky
Officer Shawn Meade's internal affairs statement about Sgt. Alex Glinsky
Officer Joseph Kenney's internal affairs statement about Sgt. Alex Glinsky
EDISON — From her room in a low-budget motel on Route 1, a prostitute working as an informant for the Woodbridge Police Department reached out to her handler with an urgent tip.
A client had contacted her. He was flush with cocaine — "white," he called it — and he wanted to trade some of it for sex, she told the handler.
Woodbridge detectives, deep into an investigation of drug-trafficking at hotels along the highway, moved into position and waited.
On that Saturday morning in 2010, the man the prostitute identified as her client, Thomas Wall, was inaugurated into one of New Jersey’s more infamous brotherhoods: Edison police officers who have betrayed the badge.
Wall — who would later fail a department-ordered drug test, documents show — is one of at least 30 Edison officers who were fired or who abruptly resigned amid allegations of inappropriate or illegal behavior over the past two decades. That figure, confirmed by Chief Thomas Bryan, includes six officers removed from the force or prosecuted in the past four years alone.
It is an astonishing record of misconduct unmatched by any department of equivalent size in New Jersey, a Star-Ledger review has found. Edison — the state’s fifth-largest municipality, with a population of about 100,000 — has 168 officers, down from a high of 215 eight years ago.
In neighboring Woodbridge, which has a slightly larger force and about 400 fewer residents, just seven officers have run afoul of the law or committed rules violations serious enough to warrant termination in the past 20 years, a township spokesman confirmed. Two of the seven were later reinstated.
And in Toms River, with 150 officers and 91,000 residents, not a single officer has been charged or removed for cause in the same time period, longtime Police Chief Michael Mastronardy said.